Nasa u’y
community blend
semiwashed process
Nasa u’y
community blend
semiwashed process
pillar series
pillar series
details
who
36 nasa indigenous smallholders
where
tierradentro, cauca, colombia
when
winter 2024
how
organic non certified
shade-grown, bird-friendly,1800+masl
purchased through longstanding community relationships, above market value.
how we’re brewing
1:15 - 95C - 3:00
1:2 - 93C - :25-28
1:15 - 97C - 3:30
This offering can definitely be considered our flagship coffee. Sweet as molasses, rich like chocolate. look for soft red fruit flavours layered on top of a ridiculously rich body. it’s a perfect go-to coffee, great in espresso, with milk, or as a classic pour-over.
medium roast with a prolonged yet controlled development time for workability and amplified sweetness.
roasted on an aillio bullet r1 in 1kg batches.
*roast profile is just an example.
story
The NASA indigenous community of Togoima is tightly knit and resilient, but often faces difficulties with reliable, fairly compensated market access.
The blend consists of caturra, tabi, cenicafe 1, Castillo, bourbon, and sometimes maragogype varieties. By tradition, the community pulps their cherries about 12 hours after picking them at ideal ripeness. the cherries are pulped with very little water and are left with plenty of mucilage.
Julieth and Jackie of the Liz-Andela family do most of the purchasing and blending. They purchase the coffee from their neighbours at a flexible rate that is guaranteed 10% higher than the market rate. its usually a lot higher, but sometimes the market can rise in a tidal fashion, so that helps set a minimum. They cup and blend the coffees at their family farm in the very same neighbourhood. Their brother ervin, of native root coffee, then receives, warehouses, and exports it to lulo hq.
value breakdown
Nasa u’y received $9.70usd per kilogram. each individual producer received $5/kg. nasa u’y blends based on quality, dry mills, and exports their coffees around the globe. lulo is their biggest supporter.
Farm value capture
retail 250g
8%
wholesale 250g
15%
retail 2kg
11%
wholesale 2kg
22%
these percentages reflect the economic value retained by the farm at each point of sale. they are all far above industry standards.
we’re a small roastery founded and built on real relationships. we seek proper value distribution, striving towards an equal supply chain, obstacles be damned.